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  • Letters to the Editor from March ... (3 comments)
  • Regarding the article on Menemsha insurance, I'm glad the fishermen got together and persuaded the other two selectmen to do away with that proposal. I am also glad to read that former selectman Jon Mayhew is running for selectman. I've known Jon ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 3/11/2010 5:01:44 AM
  • Fishing hearings: What took so long?
  • The March 2 congressional subcommittee hearing held at Gloucester City Hall may finally result in some relief for our fisherman who have been abused by excessive fines for over a decade now. Frankly, the hearing was little more than orchestrated ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/11/2010 3:00:02 AM
  • Letters to the Editor from March ... (2 comments)
  • Regarding the article on Menemsha insurance, I'm glad the fishermen got together and persuaded the other two selectmen to do away with that proposal. I am also glad to read that former selectman Jon Mayhew is running for selectman. I've known Jon ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 3/11/2010 3:00:02 AM
  • US says sea turtles endangered
  • The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed yesterday ... But the biggest threat to the turtles has been the danger of getting caught up in fishing gear. If adopted, the endangered status would press ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/10/2010 11:25:17 PM
  • Mansfield parents ready to dance
  • Parents: Looking to get out on the dance floor and bust a move with your son or daughter? Well, Mansfield's Together We Can has just the events for you. On Friday night, March 12, the group will hold a father/daughter dance for girls in grades 3 ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 3/10/2010 10:56:39 PM
  • US storm aid may be gone with the wind
  • In Salem, wind flattened a gazebo at Salem Willows Park and damaged the city’s fishing pier and ferry terminal. “It was a pure northeaster right off the water,’’ said Tom St. Pierre, the Salem building inspector. The roof and parapet at ...
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  • 3/10/2010 10:56:39 PM
  • Letters to the Editor from March ... (1 comments)
  • Regarding the article on Menemsha insurance, I'm glad the fishermen got together and persuaded the other two selectmen to do away with that proposal. I am also glad to read that former selectman Jon Mayhew is running for selectman. I've known Jon ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 3/10/2010 6:17:29 PM
  • Martha's Vineyard District Court Report
  • Tilton, Vineyard Haven; DOB 2/1/77, deer tagging violation: guilty, must pay $600 fine; hunting within 500 ft of dwelling: guilty, must pay $100 fine; miscellaneous code of Massachusetts regulation violation: guilty, filed; fishing/wildlife-hunting ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 3/10/2010 5:13:03 PM
  • Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles
  • waters, a decision that could have big implications for the fishing industry. The listing was proposed Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for seven species of loggerheads.
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/10/2010 2:42:44 PM
  • Color the Village green: Adams Corner, St. Patrick’s Day: Made for ...
  • With Boston boasting one of the highest concentrations of residents with Irish heritage in the country, it’s not surprising that every March the city is a center for celebrations around St. Patrick’s Day. Locally, a growing number of people have ...
  • Dorchester Reporter
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  • 3/10/2010 1:31:09 PM
  • Color the Village green: Adams Corner, St. Patrick’s ...
  • With Boston boasting one of the highest concentrations of residents with Irish heritage in the country, it’s not surprising that every March the city is a center for celebrations around St. Patrick’s Day. Locally, a growing number of people have ...
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  • 3/10/2010 1:31:09 PM
  • Feds recommend endangered listing for loggerheads
  • Fish and Wildlife Service for seven species of loggerheads. The proposal is now open to public comment and could be in effect by summer 2011. NOAA Fisheries says one of the biggest threats to loggerheads is getting trapped in various kinds of fishing ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/10/2010 12:41:03 PM
  • Calendar: Week of March 11 to 18
  • FOOD & DRINK: An Irish night and dinner dance will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 28 Fish Road, Tiverton, on March 13 at 7 p.m. Corned beef and cabbage ... Two Massachusetts artists present an exhibition that demonstrates the potential of ...
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  • 3/10/2010 12:33:53 PM
  • Deceptive danger
  • Southboro Firefighter Scott Navaroli clings to the top of the ice, water moving around him. He bobs up and down in his ice rescue suit as Firefighter Kenneth Franks shuffles toward him atop the ice on the Sudbury Reservoir. Slowly, Firefighter Franks ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/10/2010 6:57:27 AM
  • Ice safety is on the slide
  • Southboro Firefighter Scott Navaroli clings to the top of the ice, water moving around him. He bobs up and down in his ice rescue suit as Firefighter Kenneth Franks shuffles toward him atop the ice on the Sudbury Reservoir. Slowly, Firefighter Franks ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/10/2010 1:28:10 AM
  • Google’s D.C. ties worry some consumer advocates
  • WASHINGTON - Scott Brown’s campaign staff members liked to say the Republican senator’s underdog campaign was “powered by Google ,’’ appropriating the company’s advertising tagline. But some consumer advocates worry that Google’s ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/9/2010 9:03:19 PM
  • Gloucester man pleads guilty to striking whales
  • A Gloucester man has been fined $200 after he admitted to striking two humpback whales with his recreational fishing boat off the Massachusetts coast in July of 2008. Christopher Jacques, 42, pled guilty yesterday to two misdemeanor violations of the ...
  • Boston Herald
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  • 3/9/2010 10:11:54 AM
  • Summit on fishing rules
  • Tuesday March 9, 2010 NEW BEDFORD (AP) -- Some fishermen and advocates for the industry voiced concern at a regional summit Monday about upcoming federal regulations they warn could put them out of business, while others suggested the changes were a ...
  • Berkshire Eagle
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  • 3/9/2010 5:32:44 AM
  • Fish & Richardson rates pro bono honor
  • The Massachusetts Bar Association said it will honor Boston law firm Fish & Richardson PC with the Pro Bono Award for Law Firms at a March 12 lunch at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Since 2005, Fish & Richardson has supported the Northeast ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/9/2010 4:42:38 AM
  • Business briefcase
  • with his wife, Welly Lai, an interior designer. He is the son of Jean and William ... Preservation Massachusetts' 25th Anniversary dinner on May 5 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston New Web site offers real estate news J. Barrett & Company has ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/9/2010 3:02:25 AM
  • Fishermen fear losing businesses
  • ... scheduled May 1 switch to a “sector” system of fishing ... simple: No fish, no job. At the end of the day, their interest is pretty closely aligned with environmentalists.” Brian Rothschild, a scientist at the University of Massachusetts
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/9/2010 1:29:21 AM
  • New pedestrian signal to be installed for Route 1
  • A pedestrian crossing light will be added to the roadway at Friedenfels Street and March Road in Salisbury, an attempt ... So far, only Moderator Ron Ray and Klima have completed that process, Town Clerk Wilma McDonald said. Fish lovers can have all ...
  • Newburyport Daily News
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  • 3/9/2010 1:07:53 AM
  • US issues red tide warning
  • NEWBURYPORT — Local clammers will be watching the wind this summer. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a warning that the poisonous algae known as red tide could cause significant problems in New England shellfish beds ...
  • Newburyport Daily News
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  • 3/9/2010 1:07:53 AM
  • Patrick urges precise tally of fish stocks
  • NEW BEDFORD - Governor Deval Patrick, responding to concerns from fishermen who believe fish stocks are often undercounted ... Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and members of the fishing industry to work on ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/9/2010 12:17:46 AM
  • GOP seeks control board for Lawrence
  • ... Gloucester man was convicted yesterday of violating the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act after hitting two humpback whales with his fishing boat in a national marine reserve in Massachusetts Bay, the US attorney’s office said. Christopher ...
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  • 3/9/2010 12:17:46 AM
  • Obituaries published March 9
  • Obituaries were published for Dorothy DeMille, 77, of Wrentham; Roger Fedelia, 65, of North Attleboro; Beatrice Kmiec, 85, of Attleboro; Alfred Kwiatkowski, 86, of Foxboro; and William "Billy" Tocchio Sr., 55, of Attleboro. Dorothy DeMille, 77 ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 3/8/2010 11:13:21 PM
  • Massachusetts Summit on fishing rules
  • Fishermen and elected leaders gathered at the New Bedford Whaling Museum ahead of a scheduled May 1 switch to a "sector" system of fishing. Fishermen in that management ... Fishermen know the sea, and they know the fish, and they don’t want to see ...
  • Berkshire Eagle
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  • 3/8/2010 8:50:11 PM
  • BUSINESS NOTES
  • Philip Ciaramicoli, Jr., president of Tri-County Medical Associates, announces the recruitment of four new physicians over the past several months. Now more than ever there is a demand for physicians in Massachusetts, and the growing shortages are a ...
  • Milford Daily News
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  • 3/8/2010 8:00:04 PM
  • NMFS chief gets earful at 'Summit'
  • NEW BEDFORD — The Northeast Fisheries Summit drew almost 300 people to this city yesterday, drawing a veritable "Who's Who" of the fishing industry. And the vast majority of them gave the new NOAA fisheries director an earful about what they view ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/8/2010 7:38:36 PM
  • Guilford Hanks, owned oil company
  • He was past president of the Norwottuck Fish & Game Club, a member of the Vero Beach Anglers Club and a former dog officer for the Town of Amherst. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Nadine A. (Seymour) Hanks; three daughters, Cynthia Benben of ...
  • Daily Hampshire Gazette
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  • 3/8/2010 4:53:57 PM
  • Mayoral appointments, salary hikes on agenda for City Council ...
  • As refined several times, the ordinance also would prohibit waterfowl hunting, ice fishing and and use of live bait except ... area, bounded by Dartmouth and Freetown, and within the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve, complained to officials ...
  • Herald News
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  • 3/8/2010 3:20:54 PM
  • Climate change
  • ... fish being spotted for the first time in northern latitudes where they had not been seen before. He said that when he was growing up in northern New Jersey he would hear katydids in August. He said he didn't hear them in Central Massachusetts ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/8/2010 3:06:35 PM
  • Patrick calls for technology to improve accuracy of fish counts
  • NEW BEDFORD -- Gov. Deval Patrick today said the newest technology should be used by federal regulators and researchers as they make crucial calculations about the vibrancy of fish stocks off the Massachusetts coastline. Speaking at a summit on the ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/8/2010 10:20:15 AM
  • FHO Partners Wins Downtown, Suburban Office Deal Of The Year Award
  • ... Deal of the Year Award and the 2009 Suburban Office Deal of the Year Award from the Massachusetts chapter of the Commercial Brokers Association (CBA). CBA recognized the company for negotiating the relocation of Fish & Richardson P.C.
  • Banker & Tradesman Online
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  • 3/8/2010 7:28:27 AM
  • Global warming show elicits varied views
  • WORCESTER — An exhibit at the EcoTarium on the effects of climate change is drawing many comments, both from people who think that increased carbon dioxide emissions are warming the Earth at an alarming rate and from others who believe the warming ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/8/2010 1:30:32 AM
  • New ‘Vault’ brings hope for new era of civic leadership
  • ... who formed the Massachusetts Competitiveness Partnership deserve credit for restoring the tradition of civic leadership in Boston. Many of them, including Partners Healthcare Chairman Jack Connors, Suffolk Construction CEO John F. Fish, and ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/7/2010 11:14:32 PM
  • Patrick to attend summit on fishing rules
  • The event, to be held at the Whaling Museum all day, is open to the public and will feature panel discussions on the fishing industry as well ... sponsored by city of New Bedford, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and the Massachusetts ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/7/2010 11:14:32 PM
  • Lubchenco holds firm on May 1 'catch share' launch
  • The Obama administration's avowed plan to advance a fishing policy aimed at putting "a significant fraction" of the fishing captains in the northeast groundfishing fleet out of work is on track, according to testimony by captains. "This is the face ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/7/2010 8:01:15 PM
  • MassWildlife studies bears
  • A team of biologists from MassWildlife, joined by Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles and Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Mary Griffin traveled Friday to a Conway black bear den to study a female bear and her two newborn ...
  • Lowell Sun
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  • 3/7/2010 3:33:25 AM
  • License to hunt, fish by Web? Extra $3
  • ... hunting and fishing licenses from over a dozen other states online and have never paid a service fee. I can buy a license from my town clerk, but our state requires her to charge me a $1 fee. I can buy the license from a Massachusetts fish and ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/7/2010 1:24:34 AM
  • Business Planner for March 7
  • Modell’s Sporting Goods holds a “Community Weekend,” where all customers will receive a 10 percent discount off their purchase and also will get to select from a list of local youth sports programs, such as Attleboro High School’s, to receive ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 3/6/2010 11:15:43 PM
  • In quake’s aftermath, a call to comfort
  • The day the powerful earthquake struck Haiti, a friend had spotted Eliezer Romeus inside a government building before it collapsed. At home in Massachusetts, nobody could believe that his brief trip to Haiti might have ended in tragedy. Days passed ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/6/2010 10:11:17 PM
  • Some pretty big fish taken in Bay State waters
  • There were some big fish taken in 2009, with many of the records set in ponds well known for providing lunkers. A 30-pound, 9-ounce carp was the biggest logged in the Freshwater Sports Fish Awards Program adult category, with Jonathan Beauchesne of ...
  • Union-News & Sunday Republican
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  • 3/6/2010 6:50:52 PM
  • Keeping score: Travel plans
  • It's a small fish that resembles a perch ... side of your screen, or you can purchase the print edition, which is available throughout Franklin County, Massachusetts.
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  • 3/6/2010 3:08:57 PM
  • Tuna trade ban raising red flags for industry
  • The Obama administration is backing a proposal to declare Atlantic bluefin tuna an endangered species and ban international trade of the fish — a prized sushi ingredient and valuable commodity for local fishermen. Pushed by environmental groups and ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/6/2010 2:58:49 AM
  • NOAA agents' visit draws fire
  • Two federal fishery law enforcement agents visited Monte Rome last week at his Intershell speciality seafood distributorship, as Rome prepared to testify as a witness for the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction at the trial scheduled to begin five ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/5/2010 9:08:03 PM
  • Independence tug drawing rave reviews
  • Wonder no more about "that big tug down at Rowe Square" that arrived in port late last year. Designed by Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C., Derecktor Shipyards at Bridgeport, Conn., built that all-steel, approximately 128-by-44-by-18-foot tug ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/5/2010 9:08:03 PM
  • Outdoors: Coyote war nears acme
  • A temporary ceasefire in the man-coyote war begins Monday as hunting season closes. Though some adore them, more locals fear or revile coyotes, whose population has spread dramatically. But what's not to like about the poor-man's wolf? They're a ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/5/2010 5:58:57 AM
  • Coyote war nears acme
  • A temporary ceasefire in the man-coyote war begins Monday as hunting season closes. Though some adore them, more locals fear or revile coyotes, whose population has spread dramatically. But what’s not to like about the poor-man’s wolf? They’re ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/5/2010 1:26:56 AM
  • Congressmen call for ouster of NOAA's top cop
  • The epicenter of abuse is the officers based in Gloucester from which the fishing industry of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states is policed and often demeaned, according to a 28-page report on a ... Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, meeting in Gloucester ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/4/2010 7:50:30 PM
  • Church showing Manchester artist's icons
  • Manchester artist Lynn Runnells exhibits her religious icons at a Hamilton church's gallery throughout March. "Icons are windows pointing the way to an encounter with the Divine. My icons come from my own personal spiritual journey, but often the ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/4/2010 3:01:11 AM
  • Panera Bread opens in Worcester
  • Mitchell Roberts and David Peterman, partners in PR Restaurants, LLC, which operates 29 franchise Panera Bread locations in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire, opened ... Homemade fish and clam chowders, too. Hours: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 3/4/2010 1:35:17 AM
  • Tagging along with great whites
  • The preliminary results suggest that the sharks are following a migratory path along the Eastern Seaboard used by other marine species, from whales to fish - and like them ... ecstatic last fall when he and a harpoon fishing captain began chasing ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/3/2010 11:12:07 PM
  • John F. Mucci; cofounded computing firm SiCortex
  • Shortly after, they moved to Massachusetts so he could work as an engineer for Digital Equipment ... His passions outside the workplace included boating, deep-sea fishing, and cooking. Admission to his inner circle required first being fed in his ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/3/2010 10:43:29 PM
  • Catch noted violinist in Mansfield
  • Violinist Victor Romanul, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will perform a solo violin recital on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 52 North Main St. Romanul's program will consist of 12 works by seven different composers ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 3/3/2010 10:43:29 PM
  • A clear-cut controversy
  • PETERSHAM - As Chris Matera reached a barren hilltop on state land near the Quabbin Reservoir, he swept his arm toward 2 acres of oak stumps and scattered gray tree skeletons. “This is a clear-cut,’’ the Northampton resident said angrily. “Is ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/3/2010 10:29:10 PM
  • Barbara Anderson: Time to let terminally ill die on their own terms
  • I answered, 'Don't blame me.' Hey hey, ho ho, strange things are happening." — Comedian Red Buttons, "The Red Buttons Show," 1952-1955 Red Buttons' line — "strange things are happening" — caught on with the nation's teenagers back when I was ...
  • Salem News
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  • 3/3/2010 9:17:35 PM
  • On the trail: Old & new
  • Have you ever noticed how, when focused on one subject, you can breeze past peripheral information that's relevant to current events? A personal case in point pertains to a global climactic period known as the Medieval Warming Period (MWP), which ran ...
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  • 3/3/2010 9:17:35 PM
  • IG: NOAA's chief cop shredded documents in November
  • Dale J. Jones, whose decade as the head of federal fisheries law enforcement has produced a dossier of alleged heavy-handed practices against the fishing community, authorized a mass document-shredding operation last November while under scrutiny by ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/3/2010 8:34:38 PM
  • At Large : As Gosnold might have seen it
  • That's where the other Massachusetts wind power factory may be built ... writing in his New Bedford Standard in 1916, Nomans was the site of a clubhouse for bass fishing enthusiasts. And also in 1916, the island became the site of a wealthy sportsman ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 3/3/2010 5:14:12 PM
  • No privacy for traveling great whites
  • ... techniques they needed to locate and get close to the fish and use a harpoon to plant a tag that would remain in a free-swimming fish. If all goes well, researchers will have new information about the movements of a species that scientists have ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 3/3/2010 4:38:25 PM
  • Inspector: US fishery officer shredded documents
  • It was reviewed by the inspector general after complaints from Northeast fishermen about arbitrary enforcement of fishing industry regulations. Inspector General Todd Zinser told a congressional subcommittee in Washington on Wednesday that Jones ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/3/2010 3:33:59 PM
  • Panel eyes fault in national fish agency
  • G LOUCESTER — The head of law enforcement for the nation’s fisheries was on the hot seat as a congressional panel met in Massachusetts to discuss a scathing inspector general’s report. Dale Jones of NOAA Fisheries faced members of the Oversight ...
  • Boston Herald
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  • 3/3/2010 7:27:13 AM
  • Auction settles case vs. NOAA
  • ... for failing to have the yellowtail letter, those landing fish elsewhere — including in New Bedford — were not. Ciulla and his family have theorized that the government simply didn't hanker for a fishing ... leadership of the Massachusetts
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/2/2010 7:52:52 PM
  • Mass. fishermen warn fisheries head of dire future
  • ... idea is to increase fishermen's autonomy and profits while protecting the fish with tough catch limits. Fishermen worry breaking the catch into individual shares will lead to massive consolidation that wipes out fishing communities as the shares ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/2/2010 3:35:10 PM
  • Flooding adds to storm woes
  • Along flood-prone Bridge Road in Salisbury as the tidal Merrimack River swelled around noon, Town Creek overflowed into the parking lots of Hudson's, Dave's Fish Market and ... region, National Grid, Verizon and Massachusetts Highway Department crews ...
  • Newburyport Daily News
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  • 3/2/2010 1:01:52 AM
  • Massachusetts wind farm project sent to the Advisory Council on ...
  • AP photo Supporters and opponents of Cape Wind protest outside the U.S. Coastguard Station in Woodshole, Massachusetts on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, while Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, not pictured, hosted a news conference on Coast Guard ...
  • Union-News & Sunday Republican
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  • 3/1/2010 10:31:32 PM
  • Timothy D. Norwood
  • Tim went on to graduate from Greenfield Community College, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1972, after law school, Tim, who had a deep love for fishing, moved to Oregon, was admitted to the Oregon ...
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  • 3/1/2010 9:48:35 PM
  • Hunting license sales up across the country
  • Hunting license sales across the country grew by about 3.5 percent according to a recent study by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. "Many factors such as weather and the economy affect hunting license sales in any given year, but in 2009 the ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 3/1/2010 8:15:32 PM
  • Mass. wind farm project sent to preservation panel
  • They and other opponents say the project is a threat to aviation, bird life and commercial fishing interests and should be moved to a site outside Nantucket Sound that Cape Wind says isn't feasible. Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rodgers said the developer ...
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  • 3/1/2010 3:00:34 PM
  • High-wind, coastal-flood advisories in effect, morning boats canceled
  • ( March 1 , 2010 ) The National Weather Service has issued high-wind and coastal-flood advisories through 3 p.m. today, and some service on the Hy-Line and Steamship Authority has already been canceled . According to the NWS, a very intense storm ...
  • Inquirer and Mirror
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  • 3/1/2010 6:53:48 AM
  • Republicans Want Hearing On Fannie/Freddie Bailout
  • House Financial Services Committee that he rescheduled the hearing from March 2 to allow for a field hearing on commercial fishing issues in Massachusetts, and to allow the Obama administration more time to prepare for the hearing. Frank had invited ...
  • Banker & Tradesman Online
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  • 3/1/2010 6:39:29 AM
  • Bay State CEOs Push For Job Growth
  • A group of chief executives has been meeting with state political leaders to push for job development. Fourteen executives have organized the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. They include Raytheon Co. CEO William Swanson, Liberty Mutual's ...
  • Banker & Tradesman Online
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  • 3/1/2010 6:39:29 AM
  • Corporate CEOs push for job growth
  • BOSTON (AP) -- A group of chief executives has been meeting with state political leaders to push for job development. Fourteen executives have organized the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. They include Raytheon Co. CEO William Swanson, Liberty ...
  • Sentinel & Enterprise
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  • 3/1/2010 5:20:45 AM
  • Union, Stop & Shop to keep negotiating
  • Contract negotiations between Quincy-based Stop & Shop and five New England unions are set to resume tomorrow, a week after supermarket workers voted to authorize a strike. Stop & Shop spokeswoman Faith Weiner said both sides negotiated all weekend ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/1/2010 12:05:47 AM
  • Vaulting into politics again
  • It’s not surprising that the local movers and shakers believe government is not doing a great job on the economy. You don’t need an MBA to see that the Massachusetts economy is not as strong as it was. But the people on this list certainly don ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 3/1/2010 12:05:47 AM
  • Word on the Street
  • Doug Stephan literally brought the goods to last week's Framingham Board of Health meeting. Stephan, who owns Eastleigh Farm on the north side of town, was before the board because he wants to sell raw milk at the farm. It appears, however, that he ...
  • MetroWest Daily News
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  • 2/28/2010 9:13:59 PM
  • OUR VIEW: Proving doubters wrong
  • Thumbs up to To the newly established University of Massachusetts School of Law at Dartmouth, which has ... Theme parks like SeaWorld confine the giant marine mammals to oversized fish tanks, akin to a person being forced to live in a bathtub ...
  • Herald News
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  • 2/28/2010 8:52:30 PM
  • Cuts hit green funding
  • Some Massachusetts libraries are making it easier to measure your home or workplace’s energy use by lending out energy kits and watt meters. Watt meters are simple devices that you plug your electronics into. They tell you how much electricity the ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/28/2010 8:23:52 PM
  • Corporate CEOs push for job growth
  • Fourteen executives have organized the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. They include Raytheon Co. CEO William Swanson, Liberty Mutual's Edmund Kelly and Ronald L. Sargent of Staples Inc. John Fish, chief executive of Suffolk Construction Co. in ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 2/28/2010 7:33:46 PM
  • Corporate CEOs push for job growth
  • Fourteen executives have organized the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. They include Raytheon Co. CEO William Swanson, Liberty Mutual's Edmund Kelly and Ronald L. Sargent of Staples Inc. John Fish, chief executive of Suffolk Construction Co.
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/28/2010 12:31:26 PM
  • Corporate CEOs push for job growth
  • Fourteen executives have organized the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. They include Raytheon Co. CEO William Swanson, Liberty Mutual's Edmund Kelly and Ronald L. Sargent of Staples Inc. John Fish, chief executive of Suffolk Construction Co.
  • Union-News & Sunday Republican
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  • 2/28/2010 10:58:22 AM
  • Scouts reach out to Latino children
  • Photo by Don Treeger / The Republican Boy Scout Troop 11 and Cub Scout Pack 11 in Springfield mark the beginning of a recent Monday night meeting. SPRINGFIELD – After her son Angel Burgos Torres, 12, joined the Boy Scouts, Elizabeth Torres noticed ...
  • Union-News & Sunday Republican
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  • 2/28/2010 3:34:33 AM
  • Today's Scouting same, only better
  • When Boy Scouts pitched their first tents in Western Massachusetts a century ago, they used heavy canvas that leaked, they slept in the dirt and their open air shelters let the bugs in. Today, Scouts use lightweight nylon tents with floors and ...
  • Union-News & Sunday Republican
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  • 2/28/2010 3:05:55 AM
  • Thousands still lack power after Northeast storm
  • CONCORD, N.H.— Frustration turned to resignation Saturday for hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast struggling to survive another day waiting for utility crews to restore electricity after powerful storms socked the region with heavy ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/27/2010 10:48:14 PM
  • Playwright Adam Szymkowicz to speak at UMass Dartmouth
  • New York playwright Adam Szymkowicz, a 1999 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth alumnus, will speak at UMass Dartmouth on Tuesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the library browsing area. As a published playwright, Szymkowicz has written the following ...
  • Herald News
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  • 2/27/2010 8:39:23 PM
  • 14 CEOs unite to make business heard
  • A group of chief executives from some of the biggest companies in Massachusetts has been meeting privately with state political leaders on ways to spur job development, a coordinated high-level business effort reminiscent of Boston’s Vault ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/27/2010 7:34:57 PM
  • Sunday's Child
  • Fishing is another favorite activity he might well like to do in a new family ... To learn more about Jerry, and about adoption from foster care, call the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) at 617-54-ADOPT (617-542-3678) or visit www.
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/27/2010 3:53:03 PM
  • Mosi, we'll miss you
  • Percentage gain in January of the median price of homes in Massachusetts. 3. Feet of water reported in one Norton basement ... Visitors annually to the North Attleboro national fish hatchery, where plans are afoot to add a native plant garden.
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 2/26/2010 10:49:25 PM
  • Outdoors: State's falconers deserve better time frame
  • Massachusetts falconers are heading north as their duck season ended Feb. 11 ... Today through Sunday — Fishing & Hunting Show, Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford. Information: www.fishinghuntingexpo.com , (860) 844-8461. Today through Sunday ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 2/26/2010 6:07:15 AM
  • Kerry to fishermen: 'Lubchenco your friend'
  • U.S. Sen. John Kerry is out of step with the majority of his Massachusetts colleagues when it comes to the solution of the fishing crisis that brought a large insurgency to Washington, D.C., earlier this week. Nearly all Kerry's congressional ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 2/26/2010 3:01:08 AM
  • Grieving, recovering from a job loss
  • On other occasions, they went fishing, or gathered around a barbecue for a backyard cookout ... The unemployment rate of 9.7 percent in Massachusetts, reflected in the thousands of layoffs in large and small companies, is creating too many similar ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 2/26/2010 3:01:08 AM
  • State’s falconers deserve better time frame Calendar
  • Massachusetts falconers are heading north as their duck season ended Feb. 11. That’s regrettable for the 57 permitted Massachusetts falconers who preserve this ancient hunting tradition. Maine’s season ends Monday, and New Hampshire’s extends ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 2/26/2010 1:28:05 AM
  • Seekonk wins energy grants
  • Sustainable Seekonk, a grassroots committee working on energy and sustainability issues, notes that the town has won awards by the Massachusetts Renewable ... perishable canned and dry foods such as soup, meat, fish, pasta sauce, pasta, fruit ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 2/25/2010 10:29:07 PM
  • Sea Tales: An active season for seals
  • At low tide, cast a casual glance across the Merrimack River near Salisbury State Reservation, and you'll see lumpy black rocks covered with slippery rockweed. Look a little closer, and you'll see that the hefty clumps of gray and brown scattered ...
  • Newburyport Daily News
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  • 2/25/2010 9:31:51 PM
  • U.S. may become geological history
  • Once upon a time, the oceans of the world were dominated by creatures with notochords, which allowed them to swim freely. Then, about 350 million years ago, Mother Nature decided to upgrade to creatures with a backbone, and they have dominated the ...
  • Berkshire Eagle
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  • 2/25/2010 8:13:07 PM
  • OUR VIEW: Quick thinking and training prevented a horrific tragedy
  • People who want to fish, play hockey or skate at places like Lake Sabbatia or Johnson’s Pond in Raynham should follow the safety measures from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. Find them on the Taunton Daily Gazette Web site.
  • Taunton Gazette
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  • 2/25/2010 4:09:44 PM
  • Red tide hits region
  • Red tide taints clams and mussels, making them unsafe for people to eat, but poses no risk to people who eat fish, lobster, scallops and ... hundreds of miles of shellfish beds in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Last summer, nearly the entire ...
  • Berkshire Eagle
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  • 2/25/2010 8:31:36 AM
  • 2 Va. firms seek to establish offshore wind farms
  • RICHMOND, Va.— Federal regulators have received leasing proposals from two Virginia companies seeking to develop offshore wind farms capable of supplying clean energy to hundreds of thousands of homes. Apex Wind Energy Inc. is proposing to lease ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/25/2010 7:12:52 AM
  • Camping out in the cold
  • After a long week at work, many people like to hunker down and hibernate in their homes for the weekend during the cold winter months. Even those who like nothing more than the great outdoors save their getting-away-from-it-all yearnings for the warm ...
  • Foxboro Reporter
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  • 2/25/2010 6:58:33 AM
  • Centennial celebrates New England's first manned flight
  • HAMILTON — Orville and Wilbur Wright became the iconic pioneers of American aviation when the airplane they designed and built became the first heavier-than-air craft to maintain flight in 1903. Local aviators were a little later to the game, but ...
  • Salem News
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  • 2/25/2010 6:08:26 AM
  • Photo by Nicole Harnishfeger
  • ... same time, as a rapidly intensifying storm moving west across Long Island will produce a two- to five-hour period of easterly winds between 30 and 60 mph over the eastern Massachusetts coast. The combination of very low barometric pressure and ...
  • Inquirer and Mirror
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  • 2/25/2010 5:32:39 AM
  • Fishermen rally against federal catch limits
  • Fishermen from around the country gathered on Capitol Hill to demand changes to a federal fisheries law they say is killing jobs and eroding fishing communities ... cod fishermen from off the Massachusetts coast and those who fish for red snapper in ...
  • Daily Hampshire Gazette
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  • 2/24/2010 11:49:03 PM
  • Red tide could hurt N.E. shellfish industry
  • Red tide taints clams and mussels, making them unsafe for people to eat, but poses no risk to people who eat other fish, lobster, scallops, or ... of miles of shellfish beds in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Last summer, nearly the entire ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/24/2010 11:34:44 PM
  • SalemNews.com, Salem, MA
  • It began as a lark, preceded by what must have been an astonishing caravan passing through the streets of Marblehead, Salem and Beverly before arriving at frozen Chebacco Lake in Hamilton. The Flying Fish, as it was called, was airborne for barely ...
  • Salem News
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  • 2/24/2010 10:58:57 PM
  • Obituaries published Feb. 25
  • Lockwood was an active volunteer in Marriage Encounter in Massachusetts and New Jersey ... He enjoyed fishing, especially with his nephews and other family members, playing cards, and watching horse races at Batavia Downs in Buffalo. He was the ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 2/24/2010 10:37:28 PM
  • Think summer camp in Mansfield
  • Concepts are presented in a thematic approach and the curriculum is individualized to meet the needs of each child within the classroom, but also guided by the Massachusetts ... Mansfield Elks will host a series of fish fry events on Friday evenings ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 2/24/2010 10:37:28 PM
  • Texas Hold-'em aids Norton schools
  • NEED (Norton Embracing Educational Development) will host a Texas Hold 'Em charity poker tournament on Saturday, March 13 at the Norton VFW on Summer Street. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and tournament will begin at 6 p.m. Seats are $75 and limited to ...
  • Sun Chronicle
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  • 2/24/2010 10:37:28 PM
  • 100 YEARS OF FLYING
  • HAMILTON — Orville and Wilbur Wright became the iconic pioneers of American aviation when the airplane they designed and built became the first heavier-than-air craft to maintain flight in 1903. Local aviators were a little later to the game, but ...
  • Salem News
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  • 2/24/2010 9:04:25 PM
  • Conductor explores music’s healing touch
  • Orent said he also witnessed how his mother’s chemotherapy sessions were eased by music provided through a program at Massachusetts General Hospital. “It inspired ... We may not be like star fish and be able to grow a brand-new arm.
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/24/2010 8:57:15 PM
  • Fishermen rally against limits
  • WASHINGTON - Fishermen and charter boat captains from Massachusetts to Florida rallied outside the Capitol yesterday to demand changes to a federal fisheries law they say is killing jobs and eroding fishing communities. Participants in the “United ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/24/2010 8:14:18 PM
  • 'United We Fish'
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the middle of a chilly mid-winter's week, a mix of men, women and children in the thousands from the fishing industry's northern and southern commercial and recreational sectors stood united yesterday with more than 20 members ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 2/24/2010 7:59:59 PM
  • Robert Burke, 80, WWII veteran
  • WESTFIELD - Robert (Bob) G. "Red" Burke, 80, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, at home, surrounded by his loving family. He was born April 16, 1929, in Holyoke to John Burke Sr. and Rose (Denault) Burke. Red's wife Hazel Mae (Drew) Burke passed ...
  • Daily Hampshire Gazette
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  • 2/24/2010 5:36:49 PM
  • Fiber optic cable to Vineyard under review
  • A proposal by GPCS Fiber Communications to run a fiber optic cable underwater from Fairhaven to Tisbury, via Woods Hole, is undergoing review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE). ACE issued a news release on February 2 describing GPCS's ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 2/24/2010 3:42:17 PM
  • Menemsha fishermen lessees need insurance
  • ... by Tim Johnson Chilmark selectmen split 2-1 over a decision last week to require that leaseholders of town lots on Menemsha Harbor carry $1 million each in liability insurance ... coverage, for example on a fishing boat, would not be costly ...
  • Martha's Vineyard Times
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  • 2/24/2010 3:42:17 PM
  • Study: High-fat diets raise stroke risk in women
  • The healthiest fats come from nuts, seeds, fish and vegetable oils. "We don't do a good enough job of emphasizing the importance of a good diet," said Dr. Lee Schwamm, a stroke specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Pediatricians in particular ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/24/2010 1:54:55 PM
  • Scientists sound red tide warning in New England
  • Red tide taints clams and mussels, making them unsafe for people to eat, but poses no risk to people who eat fish, lobster, scallops and shrimp. Officials stress that clams and mussels on the market are safe, given the regulatory safeguards in place ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/24/2010 1:40:36 PM
  • Fishermen rally against federal catch limits
  • WASHINGTON— Fishermen and charter boat captains from Massachusetts to Florida rallied outside the Capitol Wednesday to demand changes to a federal fisheries law they say is killing jobs and eroding fishing communities. Participants in the "United ...
  • Boston Globe
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  • 2/24/2010 11:53:13 AM
  • Lawmakers: Put hold on NOAA
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. John Kerry and three Massachusetts fishing coast congressmen yesterday urged a halt to all fishing industry prosecutions while an Inspector General's investigation continues into alleged misconduct by National Oceanic ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 2/24/2010 3:03:31 AM
  • Editorial: Landmark fishermen's rally doesn't need phony NOAA ...
  • By all counts, today should be a landmark day for the fishing industry of Gloucester, all of New England and across the nation. It's the day that fishermen and their industry allies from here to the Gulf and West coasts are converging on the U.S ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 2/24/2010 3:03:31 AM
  • Fed lawmakers urge halt to NOAA fishing prosecutions
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. John Kerry and three Massachusetts fishing coast congressmen today urged a halt to all fishing industry prosecutions while an Inspector General's investigation continues into alleged misconduct by National Oceanic and ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 2/23/2010 5:02:13 PM
  • Outdoors: Increase in hunt can help
  • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, responding to a blizzard of snow geese across North America, is encouraging increased hunting for them this spring. These heavy grazers are causing major damage to their fragile, Arctic breeding habitat. Eight ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 2/23/2010 6:10:49 AM
  • Lawmakers line up against tuna trade ban
  • Fishermen have gained the support of 15 members of Congress in the fight against a proposed international trade ban on bluefin tuna, the Gloucester Daily Times reports. As the Times notes, the fish is an important summer income source for ...
  • Boston Business Journal
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  • 2/23/2010 3:19:01 AM
  • Lawmakers fighting tuna trade ban
  • Bluefin tuna fishermen have gained the support of 15 members of Congress in the fight against a proposed international trade ban on the prized sushi fish, an important summer income source for Massachusetts fishermen out of Gloucester and elsewhere ...
  • Gloucester Daily Times
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  • 2/23/2010 2:57:32 AM
  • Increase in hunt can help
  • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, responding to a blizzard of snow geese across North America, is encouraging increased hunting for them this spring. These heavy grazers are causing major damage to their fragile, Arctic breeding habitat. Eight ...
  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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  • 2/23/2010 1:24:29 AM
  • Mysterious sounds and shaking ground continue in Pelham
  • PELHAM — Cracking ice, earth tremors or tractor-trailers bouncing off frost heaves. None explain the all-hour booms and earthshaking in northern Pelham the past several weeks, according to residents who reported them. Neither do blasting, power ...
  • Eagle-Tribune
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  • 2/22/2010 9:42:34 PM
  • Massachusetts judge says DNA can be taken in Craigslist killing
  • BOSTON — Prosecutors can obtain a DNA sample from the former Boston University medical student charged with killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist, a Massachusetts judge ruled Monday. Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney, said ...
  • Union-News & Sunday Republican
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  • 2/22/2010 8:38:09 PM
  • Sunken truck a pain to pluck
  • PITTSFIELD -- Sean Kent and his son, Alex, headed out Sunday to the Josh Snyder Ice Fishing Derby on Onota Lake ... According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety, more than 4,500 people die in cold water drownings every year.
  • Berkshire Eagle
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  • 2/22/2010 8:38:09 PM
  • Fish ladder for Easthampton's Manhan River Dam gets a boost from ...
  • EASTHAMPTON - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that Easthampton has been awarded $750,000 in federal stimulus funds for the construction of a fish ladder at the Manhan River Dam near Route 10. The ladder, when in operation, will ...
  • Union-News & Sunday Republican
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  • 2/22/2010 6:43:37 PM

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